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HM Inspectorate of Prisons said in its report that during a test carried out at inspection at HMP Hindley, 52 percent of inmates were positive for drugs.

Amid political debate about transgender issues and whether biological males should be allowed to enter women's washrooms, the ...

OAKLAND, Calif.—A former federal correctional officer was sentenced Friday to more than five years in prison for sexually ...

The government has unveiled several measures in the King's Speech that would hand out longer sentences or keep ...

The Department of Justice has opened investigations into conditions at two detention centers in South Carolina, citing "credible ...

The Prison Officers' Association says organised crime gangs are infiltrating the system by getting their associates to apply ...

The chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, has said one in ten prisons in England and Wales are ...

Ecuadorean security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks, and more than two dozen bladed weapons, among other items, ...

The coercive means used to transform these people of faith include imprisonment, torture, sexual abuse, psychiatric abuse, and forced ...

NTD's Lee Hall sits down with Kate Coleman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex – an organisation campaigning ...

A new report has shown that Australia’s imprisonment rate has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2000 and ...

Incarcerated women are far more likely than men to have experienced sexual abuse in their lives, and having ...

SAN SALVADOR—Authorities in El Salvador have opened one of Latin America's largest prisons, more than doubling the country's ...

KYIV, Ukraine/WASHINGTON—The United States will not provide the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine has sought in its fight ...

Deaths in Scottish prisons have reached record levels in the last three years and only a fraction of ...

A probe by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Government Accountability Office has found that the ...

A report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons has found that nine Islamist terrorists being held in two ...

The Federal Reserve, preparing to raise interest rates again. Analysts expect it'll be the same as last time, ...

Britain's independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, Jonathan Hall QC, says the Prison Service has failed to tackle Islamist ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from his job after it was revealed that ...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) is pushing back against Democrat progressives. He says holding the infrastructure bill hostage won't ...

A federal court on Oct. 5 blocked a California law that bans private prisons, finding it violated federal ...

A court has granted the city of Susanville, California, a preliminary injunction to pause current attempts at closing ...

MOSCOW—A former U.S. Marine who is serving a nine-year sentence in Russia was being transferred from a remand ...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on March 7 altering the way the federal government handles elections, ...

President Joe Biden directed the federal government on Jan. 25 to cease its reliance on federally funded private ...

Federal prisons throughout the United States have been placed under full-on lockdown indefinitely, officials said. The Bureau of ...